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Recommendation 1783 (2007)
Threats to the lives and freedom of expression of journalists
1. The Parliamentary Assembly recalls
its Resolution 1535 (2007) on threats to the lives and freedom of expression of
journalists and its determination to set up a specific monitoring
mechanism for identifying and analysing attacks on the lives and
freedom of expression of journalists in Europe.
2. It recommends that the Committee of Ministers:
2.1. express its unequivocal condemnation
of the attacks on journalists in Europe, following the declarations
made by the President of the Parliamentary Assembly, the Secretary
General of the Council of Europe and the Commissioner for Human
Rights of the Council of Europe after the murder of Anna Politkovskaya
and the most recent declarations after the murder of Hrant Dink;
2.2. call on police and law enforcement authorities in member
states to react swiftly to threats against journalists linked to
their work and develop specific strategies for the protection of
journalists who have been the targets of serious threats, without
hindering their work;
2.3. instruct its competent steering committee to draw up policy
guidelines on possible action by police and law enforcement authorities
to protect journalists who are the targets of serious threats;
2.4. establish a mechanism for identifying and analysing attacks
against journalists and other serious violations of media freedom
in Europe, with a view to developing policy recommendations to member states
on how to better protect journalists and the freedom of the media,
and report back regularly on this matter to the Assembly;
2.5. promote work on this issue at United Nations level while
maintaining the standards of the European approach towards this
issue in accordance with the European Convention on Human Rights (ETS
No. 5) and other relevant legal texts of the Council of Europe.